New on the Radar: Aug 17-23

School Pictures (play)

Oct 7 - Nov 8, 2026

Faith hates reading, Jane has lost her flashcards and Javier sees no point in studying because of climate change. Returning to New York after an acclaimed, sold-out run at Playwrights Horizons, this musical journal documents parenting, inequality, and the cruelty of puberty in the New York City school system with humor and wit.
Written and performed by Milo Cramer (Cute Activist, Minor Character) and directed by longtime collaborator Morgan Green.

Two Girls (play)

Oct 7 - Nov 8, 2026

Two Girls revisits one of the 2000s’ most viral shock-porn videos, using verbatim dialogue to construct a strange, irreverent examination of sex, disgust, and the body.

Tom at the Farm (play) Portuguese

Oct 8 - 10, 2026

Tom drives out from the city for his boyfriend’s funeral and discovers the family never knew their son was gay. His brother intends to keep it that way. What grows between them is stranger than a standoff: threats that slide into tenderness, a grieving stranger pulled deeper into a family that will not let him leave or let him be known.
Rodrigo Portella stages Michel Marc Bouchard‘s play on a ring of open earth that comes to stand for a whole country… Read More

Four Walls and a Roof (play)

Oct 22 - 24, 2026

In 1947, Bertolt Brecht sat before the House Un-American Activities Committee and ran rings around it: playing dumb, parsing translations, denying he had written what he had written, until the chairman thanked him for his cooperation. Rabih Mroué and Lina Majdalanie take that hearing, already a theatrical encounter, and turn it into a piece of theater. What they build from it is funny in a bleak way and pointed in a serious one: a look at how an artist… Read More

Deaf Republic (play)

Nov 12 - 15, 2026

A gunshot in occupied territory. A soldier shoots a deaf boy in a public square. The next day, the whole town wakes up deaf, refusing to hear the soldiers, teaching one another a sign language of resistance. From that premise, drawn from Ilya Kaminsky‘s acclaimed poetic narrative, Dublin’s Dead Centre and Sign Language poet Zoë McWhinney build one of the most striking imports of the season: a fable of occupation in which silence becomes both a hiding… Read More

Pity Whore (play)

Jan 13 - 16, 2027

Julia Jarcho takes classic Jacobean shocker ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore and runs it straight into the present. Annie waits tables at the Cheesecake Factory while her brother’s away at school; their mom is kind of a slut. Annie’s cute, Gio’s sad, and when she goes up to visit him at college, longing and tenderness tip toward the unthinkable and the grotesque, all laced with humor from somewhere unhinged. Jarcho, an Obie winner and one of the most… Read More

Milo Rau: Medea's Children (play)

Feb 11 - 13, 2027

A group of children walks onstage and begins to tell a story adults would rather not hear. Drawing on both a real criminal case and the ancient myth of Medea, the mother who murdered her own children, Milo Rau hands his tragedy to the young. They narrate it, reenact it, and stand as its witnesses, turning one of theater’s oldest horrors over in their hands and asking what any of it looks like from where they stand.
Rau is among the most provocative… Read More

Pizza or A Door in the Dark Does Not Dance (opera)

Feb 18 - 20, 2027

A pizza party. A dying guest. A portal to the next world. Nature Theater of Oklahoma returns to NYU Skirball with Pizza or A Door in the Dark Does Not Dance, a chamber opera that is miniature in scale and uncompromisingly epic in ambition.
Act one starts innocently, with friends, festivity, and slices going around, until a guest reveals she is dying of a mysterious illness and vanishes from the party. Her presumed death cracks open a doorway to the next… Read More

What Belongs to You (opera)

Apr 15 - 17, 2027

Named Best New Opera of 2025 by the Music Critics Association of North America, David T. Little’s What Belongs to You arrives as one of the most acclaimed new American operas in years. It begins in a public restroom in Sofia, where an American teacher meets a young hustler named Mitko, and a transaction becomes something neither of them can name or control. Drawn from Garth Greenwell’s celebrated debut novel, Little’s opera for solo tenor and chamber… Read More

Starstuff (play)

Oct 28 - Nov 14, 2026

Through a series of spectacular falls, a young woman named Star plunges into a cosmic quest for self discovery. This highly visual, expressionist production freefalls from the top of a mountain to the depths of the DMV in a playful exploration of our shared humanity.
Told with No.11 Productions' (Sugarcraft) signature whimsy and theatrical magic, this luminous new myth invites us to look up, turn inward, and rediscover our connection to one another and… Read More

The Steel Man (play)

Nov 3 - Dec 13, 2026

Inspired by a true story, The Steel Man follows Jake Gellert as he struggles to escape from the shadow of his larger-than-life father, Leo, a Hungarian Jewish Holocaust survivor. While Leo remains consumed by the past and a desire to avenge the family he lost, Jake searches for a way to forge his own identity and help his father find peace.
From the team behind hit shows Gene & Gilda and The Sabbath Girl, this play is a powerful drama that delves into… Read More

Tim and Scrooge (musical)

Dec 16 - 27, 2026

This is not the sequel to Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol — it's Act II.
Twelve years after Ebenezer Scrooge found a new outlook on life, he’s left everything to Tim (who’s not so “tiny” anymore). But the business world isn’t as easy as it looks, and soon Scrooge has to risk an eternity in purgatory in order to save the entire Cratchit family from ruin.
From the editor of Mad Magazine and the composer of How My Grandparents Fell in Love comes a new… Read More

God's Spies (play)

Jan 19 - Feb 14, 2027

What do you write after you’ve written the world’s greatest play? Hopefully, not another Timon of Athens. Fortunately for Shakespeare, he’s caught in the middle of the pandemic of 1603 and theaters are closed for a year. When he finds himself quarantined with a young Puritan lawyer and a mature streetwise prostitute, the plague has a way of opening his eyes to the mysteries of life and death. But is it possible to thrive creatively in lockdown? Will… Read More

Night of Songs (musical, reading) Free

Sep 9, 2026

Night of Songs will feature music from 3 new musicals.
Performing Filipina, a new “kind-of” musical by Lianah Sta. Ana, tells stories of “The Filipina Woman” and how she came to be. The show blends original compositions with reimagined Filipino folk songs, traditional book scenes with poetry and spoken word, and follows six Filipinas as they investigate and unravel their culture, history, identity, and memory to reclaim “The Filipina Woman” on their own… Read More

for colored girls (musical, reading) Free

Sep 17, 2026

for colored girls, by Natalie Brown, is a musical reimagining of Ntozake Shange’s iconic choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf. With a sung-through score that draws from across Black musical traditions, Brown uncovers unexpected dimensions in Shange’s groundbreaking text, marking a bold next chapter for a work that continues to resonate fifty years after its debut. With direction and choreography by Tony… Read More

Legendary (musical, reading) Free

Sep 18, 2026

Ancient myths. Modern questions. International multi award-winning artist and singer-songwriter Cheeyang Ng blends Chinese mythology, memory and queer legacy in the electrifying solo ritual musical Legendary, a life-affirming tale of queer joy and identity. Through communal song and the retelling of ancient myths, they explore their relationship with family, tradition and the stories that have shaped them, but never reflected them. In the beginning, there… Read More

Psychopathia Paschalis (play)

Sep 9 - 13, 2026

Psychopathia Paschalis is a dark comedy-of-manners that satirizes the hypocrisy and dysfunction beneath an upper-middle-class American family. When the Wallace family gathers for Easter, a shocking revelation—that Nick’s “friend” Justin is actually his lover—throws the household into chaos. As tensions erupt, an inept, self-styled detective only makes matters worse. Secrets unravel, bodies pile up, and the family’s fragile civility collapses into madness.

I'm Gonna Pray for You So Hard (play)

Oct 1 - 11, 2026

Ella is a fiercely ambitious young actress whose deepest need is to make her celebrated playwright father, David, proud.
Late one night, after her Off-Broadway debut, the two sit together drinking, smoking and waiting for the reviews.
What begins as an intimate conversation about art, talent and the theatre gradually turns volatile, exposing the dependence, cruelty and hunger for approval at the centre of their relationship.

Can't Get You Out of My Midsummer Night's Dream (play, reading) Free

Sep 15, 2026

Fairy Royalty meets Pop Royalty in this fabulously sparkling reimagining of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, set to the unforgettable music of Kylie Minogue.

The Haunting of Miss Robusta (play)

Oct 17 - 21, 2026

The King Born a Woman (play, reading)

Oct 5, 2026

Medieval France is the setting for Spanish playwright Vélez de Guevara's lively critique of the Salic Law, forbidding women from inheriting the throne. The French are desperately in need of a male heir, and the last king made sure they got one: his daughter Carlota, secretly raised as his son, King Charles the Fair, now celebrating their 20th birthday. All would be well in the kingdom, if the people didn't hate the king's favorite companion, Rugero. And… Read More

The Janeiad (play, reading)

Feb 8, 2027

The story of Penelope, awaiting her husband Odysseus' long return from the Trojan War, is the subject of one of our oldest surviving literary works. Now meet Jane, in modern-day Brooklyn, longing for her husband, 20 years after he went to work one fateful September 11th morning and never returned. Homer's epic gives inspiration to Anna Ziegler's lyrical drama, intensely connecting two women across time and place, contemplating the power of storytelling… Read More

Le Cid (play, reading)

Mar 1, 2027

Based on the Spanish legend of the medieval knight El Cid, Corneille's tragicomedy was the runaway hit of 1636 and sparked La querelle du Cid, an epic literary debate over its shocking disregard for the classical unities of drama. When our hero Rodrigue must duel the father of his beloved Chimène, no outcome can be a good one. And when Chimène's father is killed, she is torn between her love for Rodrigue and her duty to avenge her family's honor. And yet,… Read More

Hippolytus/Phedra (play, reading)

Mar 29, 2027

Phedra is Queen of Athens, and wife to the legendary King Theseus. Her stepson Hippolytus has sworn himself to chastity, serving the goddess Artemis—and maddening Aphrodite, who curses Phaedra to fall in love with him. Luis Quintero, playwright of the award-winning Medea: Re-Versed, pens a new rap version of the classical myth, set in a world where rhythm fuels reckoning and desire can destroy. Phedra and Hippolytus clash in a charged lyrical duel, drawn… Read More

Crime and Punishment (play, reading)

Apr 19, 2027

Dostoyevsky's turn-of-the-century masterpiece is reimagined as a 90-minute romp of a morality tale, with five actors playing over 50 zany characters. Riffing on the famous novel—and all of Russian literature—brilliant comic collaborators Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen bring the same whacked-out sensibilities of their Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors to melancholic 1860s Russia. This classic story follows Raskolnikov, an impoverished student who becomes a… Read More

The Roman Actor (play, reading)

May 17, 2027

How far should a role be taken? This entertaining tragedy puts an actor at the center of a dramatic and dangerous love triangle. Domitian, the tyrannical and jealous Roman Emperor, wreaks havoc and bloody vengeance as he accuses his wife of infidelity with the actor, Paris, whose only possibility of survival relies on pleasing an audience of one: the self-absorbed, lunatic Emperor. Regarded as the finest work of Jacobean dramatist Philip Massinger, The… Read More

Sweat (play, college)

Oct 8 - 16, 2026

Measure for Measure (play, college)

Nov 12 - 21, 2026

Marie Antoinette (play, college)

Feb 26 - Mar 6, 2027

Everyone You Will Ever Love Is Right Here in this Bunker (play, college)

Apr 16 - 26, 2027

The Crucible (play, college)

Oct 15 - 18, 2026

Practice (play, college)

Nov 12 - 15, 2026

John Proctor is the Villain (play, college)

Dec 10 - 13, 2026

Nine (musical, college)

Feb 4 - 7, 2027

Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play (play, college)

Mar 4 - 7, 2027

Rumpel (play, college)

Apr 1 - 4, 2027

A Doll's House (play, college)

Oct 22 - 24, 2026

Witch (play, college)

Nov 12 - 14, 2026